More by Karel Appel
The brushstroke, in painting, is purely and
simply what it is – rhythm,
color, matter.
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)
The true artist has no style. Style is an exterior decorative element. The true artist as servant of his matter, transcends it with an absolute freedom.
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)
Every day I have to be awake to escape.. .The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures (1990)
A war is raging within me that burns everything. So I can begin again.
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures (1990)
Theories
are things.. .Absence and nonexistence
of theories are things.
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)
Pollock.. .I also feel
like an erupting volcano.
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)
In poetic creation there is no
question of overcoming matter, as the
idle aesthetic proclaimed
by so many people would have it – but to free matter.
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour (1992)
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